Articles by Wei-Shen Wong
Waters Wavelength Ep. 336: Tokenization mania
This week, Tony and Shen talk about the topic that everyone seems to be talking about...tokenization.
How an asset manager employs analytics to evaluate performance
Channing Capital, an institutional investment firm managing nearly $5 billion in assets, uses Aapryl to analyze its performance.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 335: Some tech talk...kinda
This week, Wei-Shen and Tony talk about some recent events making headlines.
Banks weigh how to embed GRC in AI
Having governance, risk, and compliance at the core of AI product development will offer explainability and auditability, bank execs said.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 334: BofA’s Krishnan and McInnes
This week, Bank of America’s Ashok Krishnan and Duncan McInnes join Tony to discuss the build, buy, borrow strategy and instilling the right culture within the bank.
New GPU indexes to provide transparency into AI compute
Silicon Data, a company backed by DRW and Jump Trading, has launched its H100 and A100 indexes, providing transparency into the economics of AI compute.
Compliance startup bolsters advisory board, finalizes Series A funding
Umony has added former compliance officers from JP Morgan, as well as the FCA and the SEC.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 333: Baseball, analytics, and therapy
This week, Tony and Shen discuss recent books they’ve read.
LSEG’s private funds platform, Microsoft’s new datacenter, and more
The Waters Cooler: New private markets solutions, M&A activity, and a sprinkle of DLT in this week’s news roundup.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 332: DTCC’s Val Wotton
This week, Val Wotton joins the podcast to discuss the necessary steps leading up to the T+1 transitions in the UK and EU.
BlueMatrix acquires FactSet’s RMS Partners platform
This is the third acquisition BlueMatrix has made this year.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 331: Cresting Wave’s Bill Murphy
Bill Murphy, Blackstone’s former CTO, joins to discuss that much-discussed MIT study on AI projects failing and factors executives should consider as the technology continues to evolves.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 330: AI hot takes
It’s Shen and Reb this week talking about AI and the landscape for fintech partnerships.
Citi gears up for EU T+1 climb
The bank has a dedicated team examining what it needs to do to ensure a successful transition to T+1 in Europe.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 328: FundGuard’s Lior Yogev
He joins the podcast to discuss legacy tech stacks at asset management firms.
Northern Trust Asset Management enlists network theory to construct alpha signals
The $1.3 trillion asset manager will publish a paper later this year detailing how measuring network effects helps it better understand persistent drivers in trends.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 327: Standard Chartered’s Mo Rahim
He joins the podcast to discuss data and AI governance and guardrails for AI.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 326: Connectifi’s Nick Kolba
He joins the podcast to discuss the model context protocol, LLMs and agentic AI.
Euroclear readies upgrade to settlement efficiency platform
Euroclear, Taskize, and Meritsoft are working together to deliver real-time insights and resolution capabilities to users settling with any of Euroclear’s CSDs.
TT partners Thoma Bravo, Fitch launches GenAI solution, AI infrastructure woes, and more
The Waters Cooler: EquiLend acquires Trading Apps, Ultumus and BMLL partner for ETF data and analytics, and more in this week’s roundup.
Standard Chartered’s AI Factory applies the ‘repeatability’ principle
The AI Factory will be a library of transversal services of AI capabilities for the bank to use, like a tree that continually bears fruit.
Cboe to exit Japan equities, S&P/Barclays partner, LSEG mulls 24-hour trading, and more
The Waters Cooler: Regnology acquires Wolters Kluwer’s FRR unit, and storms ahead for the $500 billion Stargate project.
Pico’s IntelliVUE brings observability to its networks
Leveraging its 2019 acquisition of Corvil Analytics, Pico is providing users with real-time oversight and monitoring of their connectivity.
NZX outlines plans to bolster fast-growing dark pool
Since launching one year ago, NZX’s dark book has 5.5% of the exchange’s total turnover, and price improvement per trade on average is 11 basis points, but the exchange has more in store.